Economy, difference, empire : social ethics for social justice /
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Author / Creator: | Dorrien, Gary J. |
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Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 500 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Columbia series in religion and politics Columbia series on religion and politics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232786 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The social gospel and Niebuhrian realism. Society as the subject of redemption : Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the social gospel
- Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the crises of war and capitalism
- The Niebuhrian legacy : Christian realism as theology, social ethics, and public intellectualism
- Ironic complexity : Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, modernity, and racial justice
- pt. II. Economic democracy in question. Norman Thomas and the dilemma of American socialism
- Michael Harrington and the "left wing of the possible"
- Christian socialism as tradition and problem
- Breaking the oligarchy : globalization, turbo-capitalism, economic crash, economic democracy
- Rethinking and renewing economic democracy
- pt. III. Neoconservatism and American empire. The neoconservative phenomenon : American power and the war of ideology
- Imperial designs : neoconservatism and the Iraq War
- Militaristic illusions : the Iraq debacle and the crisis of American empire
- Empire in denial : American exceptionalism and the community of nations
- pt. IV. Social ethics and the politics of difference. The feminist difference : Rosemary R. Ruether and eco-socialist Christianity
- Pragmatic postmodern prophecy : Cornel West as social critic and public intellectual
- As purple to lavender : Katie Cannon and womanist ethics
- Religious pluralism as a justice issue : Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, and ecumenism
- The Obama phenomenon and presidency
- Social ethics in the making : history, method, and White supremacism.